ATLANTA—If you happened to walk into the interview room adjacent to the Georgia Dome when Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said Thursday, “I watched 10 seconds of the video; I couldn't watch it, honestly, I couldn't watch it anymore,” you might have thought he was talking about the replay of the terrible injury to Louisville’s Kevin Ware.

The men gathered for the National Association of Basketball Coaches convention at the Final Four have reacted strongly toward what they saw on that tape. Some worry there will be increased scrutiny regarding how they do their business.

“I absolutely do not believe there's that coaching style going on. I do not,” Boeheim said. “I'll go out where you probably shouldn't go. I don't think there's a coach in the country that does that.”

Louisville coach Rick Pitino also spoke of his belief that this is not a widespread practice in college basketball coaching.

“This is an isolated incident,” he said. “As a pro coach, I would go to every city and go see a college practice. You know, I’ve seen some coaches that may use rough language. But that just doesn’t go on.”

Boeheim and Pitino both competed against Rice in the Big East Conference. Boeheim said he has known Rice “a long time” and that he likes him. But Boeheim said he believes the Rutgers team would have been as good or better if Rice had coached his players without the over-the-top methods shown on the video. Rutgers finished 15-16 and won only five Big East games this past season.

“You know, I get verbal. I'm on players. I don't like to curse. I do curse sometimes,” Boeheim said. “You get out of control, just things come out when you're in the heat of the moment. But you can't touch a player other than just on the shoulder or something, and you certainly can't push 'em and grab 'em or throw something at 'em.

“I have thrown a ball, and it's usually up in the stands, and last time I hurt my arm, so I don't throw them anymore.”

Boeheim said he has learned lots of lessons like that by being in the coaching business for nearly five decades.

“I think sometimes you coach a certain style. There's coaches that really get after it, are on it. I used to be more like that. Now if I get upset once every week or two, it's a lot. I found that it really doesn't make any difference,” he said.

“It's like yelling at referees. You can yell at them all you want, it's not going to make any difference, so why do it, why waste the energy, why distract yourself from coaching? I think those are things that as you get a little older, you find. .. You still yell at them a little bit because they know you're over there. I think some of them, if you don't yell at them, they think they're doing a great job. You don't want to give them that impression.”